New address!
SFA Treasurer Don Standley has moved! Please update our mailing address to the address below!
Schools For Africa
c/o SFA Treasurer, Don Standley
1010 Silver Springs Way
Stanwood, WA 98292-8102
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Bobi Secondary School, coming in 2024!
Two families from Stanwood, WA have committed to building a secondary school on Bobi Grazing Reserve! The school will be large, and it will cost $50,000 to build! This estimate for the secondary school includes six large classrooms, each 24’x24’, an office also 24’x24', desks, tables, chairs, outdoor toilets, and a security wall enclosing the property. Not only is the building PAID FOR, but the generous donors have also committed to build teacher's quarters there! Phyllis has some grazing reserve projects that she is starting in January, so she is hoping to begin building Bobi Secondary School around August 2024.
Funding for the project goes through our SFA Treasurer in Stanwood, WA, directly to Phyllis in Nigeria. Phyllis will personally pay contractors and oversee the work. The school will be registered with the appropriate government offices. The school will be welcomed with open arms! Bobi Secondary School is coming at just the right time, as the pupils in our SEVEN PRIMARY SCHOOLS there are ready to move on to secondary school. The thought of sending them to 'just any school', considering the very low quality of education offered in most other schools, was really disturbing to Phyllis. She is quite ready and able to build and equip a secondary school that will be THE BEST FOR OUR CHILDREN!
A BIG need will be the ongoing support of the school, at around $700-900/month. We would REALLY love a church or two to connect with the school - for prayer, community, and monthly support. It might take TWO churches to support a school this size! :)
ESTIMATED COSTS below:
$50,000 - Initial cost to build the school - DONE!
$6,000 - yearly cost for 12 teachers’ salaries
$1,000 - yearly cost for utilities for the school
$1,000 - yearly cost for security for the school
Other possible blessings could include:
$2,000 - yearly cost of books, paper, and writing tools
$10,000 - 2 buses, as children often walk a LONG way through the bush to school
$6,000 - for teacher’s housing, on site - DONE!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Can you commit to helping us support the secondary school on Bobi Grazing Reserve? The students will get the opportunity to learn about Jesus! They will get a strong education, and help the Fulani people to grow and succeed in Nigeria!
A note from Phyllis: We have seven SFA schools on the Bobi Grazing reserve in Niger State. We established these schools with the full support of the Federal and State governments, in September 2017. Now, this year, those children are entering primary (grade) 5, and by August 2024 will be ready to start Junior Secondary School. We'd like to build this secondary school in the village of Durgu, just outside the reserve. This will make it available not only to Fulani children, but ALL children, bring people of different tribes together AND give them a high standard education. I want to ask YOU and your family and/or your church to partner with this school on an ongoing basis, supporting the teachers' salaries monthly. Thanks, and God bless you for your caring heart. Phyllis
Join us in what God is doing in Nigeria!
Your monthly gift goes directly to Nigeria, to support the salaries of our WONDERFUL teachers and nurses! One-time gifts are also welcome!
Prayer Requests:
Pray for our upcoming grazing reserve projects, and for the Fulani who are coming to settle there.
Pray for our beloved Fulani, that God would raise them up, and for their salvation!
